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The yr 2025 was onerous for the movie trade however good for films. “Wanting again at this turbulent yr, rife with the same old trade issues over the viability of the theatrical expertise, younger folks’s slipping consideration spans, and Hollywood’s overreliance on franchises, reveals a various crop of gems,” my colleague David Sims wrote this week.
Spend time together with his checklist of the yr’s 10 finest movies, and once you’re performed reflecting on the yr that was, spare a second for a few of our critics’ different suggestions. Perhaps you’ll return to a beloved favourite or discover one thing new.
On Films
The ten Finest Films of 2025
By David Sims
The standout movies that helped cinema survive one other turbulent yr
5 Films Price a Repeat Watch
By Stephanie Bai
Our writers and editors share which movies they’ll take pleasure in again and again.
25 Really feel-Good Movies You’ll Wish to Watch Once more—And Once more
By David Sims
Anxious? Listed below are among the finest and most rewatch-friendly films to assuage your thoughts. (From 2020)
Nonetheless Curious?
- The perfect albums of the yr: Though we could also be on the cusp of a serious shift in how music is made, attaining wonderful outcomes will all the time require a human method, our critic Spencer Kornhaber writes.
- Hopeful pictures from 2025: Pictures that acknowledge among the ample pleasure and kindness current on the earth round us
Different Diversions
PS
I lately requested readers to share a photograph of one thing that sparks their sense of awe on the earth. C.B., age 68, despatched this picture of Vancouver, Canada.
I’ll proceed to characteristic your responses within the coming weeks.
— Isabel
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